My concern was the cost estimate that we previously had for each voting. The number quoted this May was in the range of 5000 dollars, which is significant. We will have a series of elections and voting in the coming months, and if they were $5000 a piece, we should seriously think about what we can do to mitigate the problem.
Nat On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Mike Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > As for voting, unless the proposed alternative voting system enables proxy > voting and voting using members registered OpenIDs, we can't use it without a > change to the IPR process (which requires a vote of the membership to do). > Also, for reasons of supporting our own technologies, I believe that we want > to continue having people vote with their registered OpenIDs. > > Having been on the elections committee as long as we've had elections, my > sense is that we've gotten the bugs out of the election system by now, and it > meets our needs. Besides, it's paid for. Integrating a new voting system > into our existing membership software (or creating new membership software) > would both be costs we would have to understand before undertaking any > changes in that regard. > > My sense is that the remaining costs of using it have to do with us having > Darren do things that we could do for ourselves. (If there's any reason we > can't do them ourselves, we should remedy that before or during this upcoming > election.) > > I *do* think we should monitor the costs of running the 2013 election with > the current software so that we have data to base any decision to make a > change (or not make a change) on. > > -- Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nat Sakimura > Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 4:42 PM > To: [email protected]; Don Thibeau (OIDF ED) > Subject: [OpenID board] Infrastructure update > > Don, > > Another issue that the board has to tackle is the infrastructure update. > As I understand, the current infrastructure is very expensive to run an > election/membership voting. > > At the same time, you have been indicating the intension to move the current > web page infrastructure from Wordpress to Drupal. > I suspect these two are dealt with together. > > I would appreciate any update on it in the next EC call so that we can report > it back to the board. > > FYI, I have built a Drupal site that copied most of the Wordpress content > with the URLs intact. > Drupal also has a module called Advanced Voting, which seems to be capable of > doing the voting that does not reveal the result until it is closed. > With a shopping card module, it seems it is capable to unify the copropate > website, membership, and the voting capability. > > -- > Nat Sakimura (=nat) > Chairman, OpenID Foundation > http://nat.sakimura.org/ > @_nat_en > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board > > > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board -- Nat Sakimura (=nat) Chairman, OpenID Foundation http://nat.sakimura.org/ @_nat_en _______________________________________________ board mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board
